Tuesday, October 2, 2012

PROXY VARIABLE

Proxy at least in my
college refers to attendance for absentees by the one who are present, with
cryptic crook letters on the attendance sheet or even with the technique of
voice modulation if the names are being called. However it’s dominant in former case and few in later case too.

The idea of pervasive proxy was too abstruse and I was
rather bemused with barrage of questions that still haunted me even today, that why
in first place it exist and really made me sick in my entire college days. Why
the brightest going to be engineers not serious about their class lectures. Why?

Such illness had claimed the life of our dear friend, in
fourth semester, a bright ECE topper who
in an abject state felt it’s better to
jump off the building and die then to have attendance back with F grade in
yellow grade cards. If the rules were bit strict, if not for proxies, such
incidents would never have happened. And when we realized it was too late. With
days he was forgotten. Ultimately it’s a great loss to a bereaved families and
great loss to the nation.

One time I was in Bio-medical Instrumentation class, an
elective subject for the Electronics and communication Engineering students of
final year. The class strength was 50, yet the lecturer was taking class for
eight students. When they (lecturers) put lots of effort, why can’t we attend
the class and grasp the information, enlarge knowledge’s and improve and expand
ourselves as day’s rolls on. The same
stories go on every day in almost all classes. Number of proxies would cross
the total strength of the class. For one person, two to three attendances were
given by his two or three friends.
Sense of friendship is there. Yet, in the
name of friendship, one takes others life for granted. This proxy gives the
confidences in absentees. They can learn at home themselves, but isn't this
thing an illness for the institution of National importance. Is the education
all about the rat race of acquiring more marks and nothing more?

The so called brainy guys, the best of Indian, came up from
stiff cut throat competitions, enrolled in an institute of national importance,
has backlog histories and some even year
back(it’s very few but still its
prevalent). There may be thousands of
reasons but I personally feel this is one problem to be blamed.

I am not jealous of
the so called proxies and their care for friends and saving from attendance
back, but I am bit concerned about the effect for those who looks out for the
irresistible proxy every day. Of course the brighter people will get through
even with all proxies but the below average students following such erratic practices
subsequently will end up in catastrophic and devastated situation at the end of
the day.

After all, we are in college, we are the one to judge and
it’s up to the each individual to be circumspect and see what right and what’s
not.